In this June 28, 2018, file photo, Trump (center), along with Walker, left, and Foxconn Chairman Terry Gou participate in a groundbreaking event for the new Foxconn facility in Mt Pleasant, Wisconsin.
Electronics giant Foxconn reversed course and announced Wednesday that the huge Wisconsin plant that was supposed to bring a bounty of blue-collar factory jobs back to the Midwest – and was lured with billions in tax incentives – will instead be primarily a research and development center staffed by scientists and engineers.
The move was decried in some quarters as a case of bait-and-switch by the Taiwan-based company, which originally planned to build high-tech liquid crystal display screens in a project president Donald Trump had proudly pointed to as a sign of a resurgence in American manufacturing.
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